Youth
Tech
Forum

Recruitment 26/27

Join Youth
Tech Forum

We are seeking highly motivated individuals to join the team for Youth Tech Forum 26/27. Youth Tech Forum is a student-run, all-volunteer organisation connecting young people with technology, industry and the ideas shaping both.

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Applications close

Sunday 27 September

Interviews

30 September – 2 October

Kickoff

Tuesday 6 October

About Youth Tech Forum

We run two signature events each year: CBS Tech Day, a one-day event bringing students together with speakers and companies from across the tech landscape, and the Youth Tech Summit, a multi-day programme convening a selected cohort of young people around technology's role in business, education and society — culminating in a published Youth Tech Report.

Behind those two events sits a full organisation: partnerships, marketing, finance, operations and the people work that holds it all together. YTF rebuilds itself every year, which means you don't wait your turn for responsibility — you take real ownership from your first weeks. You'll work alongside around 25 other students, learn how a live organisation actually runs, and leave with something concrete you built.

Speaker on stage at CBS Tech DayStudents networking with companies at CBS Tech DayAudience during a CBS Tech Day session

The teams

Seven teams, each with its own charter. You'll pick three in order of preference.

CBS Tech Day

Delivers CBS Tech Day annually: a one-day event connecting students with technology, industry and ideas.

  • The programme: theme, scale, target audience and the shape of the day
  • Speakers, from longlist through to a confirmed lineup
  • The run-of-show — rehearsed before the day and directed on it
  • The attendee target, and what the registration form asks
  • The retrospective, and the playbook the next team inherits

Youth Tech Summit

Delivers Youth Tech Summit annually: a multi-day programme convening young people around technology and its role in business, education and society, culminating in a published Youth Tech Report.

  • The Summit concept: thematic pillars, cohort size, delegate profile
  • The delegate selection framework and the competitive process behind it
  • The programme and faculty across plenaries, breakouts and workshops
  • The run-of-show across the week
  • The Youth Tech Report, published as the output of the week

Operations & Business Development

Runs YTF's shared operations and infrastructure, delivers the physical execution of the signature events, and develops new products and event types from idea through validation, pilot and execution.

  • Venue, room bookings and the venue contract — the first task of each cycle
  • Physical delivery: floorplans, AV, catering, materials flow, pack-down
  • Vendors across AV, furniture, access control, IT and printing
  • A pipeline of new product and event opportunities, prioritised with SteerCo
  • Business cases: demand, feasibility, economics and a proceed/no-go recommendation

Partnerships

Owns external corporate sponsor relationships year-round: securing and keeping the partners who fund YTF in cash or in kind, and making sure they get what they were promised.

  • Paying partner relationships end to end: prospecting, qualification, proposal, close, renewal
  • In-kind sponsorship: goodie bags, catering, speaker and delegate gifts
  • The pipeline — no other team generates or qualifies corporate leads
  • Delivery against what each partner was promised

Marketing

Owns YTF's brand and external communications across all events year-round, building awareness and turning it into attendance and engagement.

  • The brand: its direction, guidelines and how consistently it's applied
  • Every channel YTF speaks through, including the events' own sites and socials
  • The digital estate: websites, registration and application platforms
  • Campaigns from announcement through event week to follow-up
  • Photography, press relationships and channel performance

People & Culture

Owns volunteer recruitment, onboarding, retention and culture across all teams, so an all-volunteer organisation that rebuilds itself every year keeps the people it needs.

  • Recruitment strategy: who YTF looks for, how it's positioned, how the funnel is designed
  • Onboarding, through a new member's first weeks
  • Retention, and the measurement that makes it visible before people leave
  • The well-being framework and internal events: socials, off-sites, celebrations
  • Succession and leadership transition at the end of a board year

What you'll get out of it

  • Real ownership from week one — YTF rebuilds itself every year, so there's no queue for responsibility.
  • Direct experience of how a live organisation runs: budgets, contracts, sponsors, deadlines that don't move.
  • A network across CBS, other universities and the companies that partner with us.
  • Around 25 people who are building the same thing you are, and a social calendar to match.
  • Something concrete to point at afterwards — an event you delivered, a partnership you closed, a platform you built.

What we're looking for

You don't need to have done this before. You do need to be someone who:

  • Communicates clearly and works well with people across teams — most of what we do depends on someone else's input arriving on time.
  • Is curious about technology and what's happening in the industry. Interest matters more than expertise, and every team here needs people who aren't developers.
  • Follows through on the details, and flags a problem early rather than hoping it resolves itself.

Application form

Youth Tech Forum 26/27. All fields marked with an asterisk are required.

One PDF file, max 10 MB.

Briefly explain why you want to apply.

Which teams would you like to join for Youth Tech Forum 2026? Pick three different teams.